Okay this is not adapted from an episode but it is an angsty little idea that sunk its evil little claws into my brain and will not let go until I write it. As for fans of 'Returned' too don't worry the next chapter is done it is just being beta-ed right now. And I will not do the different points of views sorry

Hold on to these Moments

Chapter 4: Tablet

It looked far too familiar, she knew what it was. Just the thought of the text on the small stone slab brought back the horrific memories. Their screams, the look on their faces before...She wondered if Daniel had translated it yet. Since he was seated at his desk as usual hard at work she assumed that he hadn't. Otherwise he would have said something...wouldn't he have? Surely he would have, such a text would defiantly make him bring it up somehow.

"I can still remember some of them." Vala said softly tracing her finger along the carved lines of the familiar looking stone tablet. Daniel looked up from his work confused

"Remember some of who?" he asked

"Them." she said looking down at the tablet "Where is this from?"

"The tablet you mean? PXY-463 SG-13 picked it up." he was still rather confused Vala never took such an interest in his work. But the look on her face was not one of the curious child-like Vala but of a much grimmer person he did not see as often. He had not translated it yet he was busy with another one but from what he could tell Vala knew what it said.

"Have you translated it yet?" she asked

"No. Vala is there something you are trying to tell me? Do you know what it says?" Daniel asked. She picked up the tablet to the light and blew on it to remove some of the dusk.

"I can read parts of it. It is a death notice, only it is meant to gain power by fear." Daniel was still confused by what she was saying "Qetesh sent this out in a particularly unfaithful village as almost a warning telling how the unfaithful had been killed and warning others if they did not bow down the same painful death would come to them."

There was silence, Daniel reached over and lightly touched Vala's hand she did not take notice of his action but kept her expression the same staring forward at the tablet.

"I can still remember those people, they had plotted against Qetesh and she deemed that they receive death in the most painful means possible. She beat them herself using nothing but a large study stick, she used the ribbon device on them until they had almost reached death before stopping and robbing them of the promise of no more pain, and she tortured them for hours using many different means. If one died before she thought they where punished enough she would put them in a sarcophagus and begin the process over again. When she was done with them she lit them ablaze, it had to be one of her most tedious and utterly sick murders ever. But I remember them, their screams, their faces before death took over, their pleading. I remember Qetesh's immense sense of pleasure." Again silence before Vala spoke again

"Qetesh liked to keep a reminder of her most 'successful' murders with her and must have left the record of it on PXY-463 because those murders originally took place on her new host's home world." Daniel looked up shocked "You don't mean?" but Vala nodded grimly and went on "There where three people who had to endure this cruel treatment, her hosts best friend a rather stubborn noble girl who was leading the group of them to overthrow Qetesh and hopefully get their friend back, Another friend of the host's an awkward young boy who she had known since she was very young he did not last very long he was already sick with a very deadly disease."

Vala stopped before mentioning the third person Daniel saw a tear trickle down her cheek. "The third was a strong young man who lasted the longest under the cruel treatment, he kept insisting that he could get though to the host, to his lover. But in the end he met the same fate as the others."

Vala closed her eyes and a few more tears seeped though Daniel went over to her, holding her close to comfort her he would just get rid of the tablet it held no historical value only painful memories and lost lives.


That actually turned out a bit sadder then I intended.

I need to go be depressed now please cheer me up with a review.